Lockdown Sunday
- March 23, 2020
- by
- Matt
This weekend was the first weekend of spring. After a long dreary winter filled with rainy days, floods, and moaning winds, the population came out in force to enjoy the sunny weather. At Skegness, hundreds of thousands flocked to the caravan parks and arcades on Saturday. In Victoria and Richmond parks, cyclists, walkers and other...
One Nation Under a Virus
- March 17, 2020
- by
- Matt
I’m not a huge fan of Winston Churchill. He was racist, devious, and ruthless: a romantic imperialist who was as willing to celebrate the slaughter of ‘barbaric’ peoples who opposed the British Empire as he was to turn troops on striking Welsh miners or Greek communists But that doesn’t mean that I don’t recognise the...
Chronicle of a Coup Foretold
- December 20, 2019
- by
- Matt
A week on, there is no way you can really look on the 2019 General Election that makes it feel any better than it did on the night. The bare facts speak for themselves. The single greatest concentration of conmen, chancers, fanatics and incompetents in British political history have been given a majority by the...
All Hail to the Monster
- September 26, 2019
- by
- Matt
Readers of this blog will probably know that I’m not a great fan of Boris Johnson. In fact it would be safe to say that I despise him as much as any British politician I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly why. It might be the constant...
The Strange Tale of the Disappearing Country
- September 22, 2019
- by
- Matt
I’ve been abroad in the Pyrenees for nearly three weeks now and it was, as it always is these days, a huge relief to be away from these septic isles. Of course you don’t forget them. Nowadays, you take Brexit with you in your mental baggage, even if you never meant to pack it. It’s...
Johnson and Trump: That’s Entertainment
- August 27, 2019
- by
- Matt
If there’s one thing that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have in common, it’s their propensity for lying. Where politicians like Blair and Bush lied and massaged facts to realise specific agendas, both these politicians at least recognised that truth existed and that it was important for politicians to make it seem as though it mattered.
Johnson...
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